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Shaw, J and Greenhow, SK (2019) Professional perceptions of the care-crime connection: Risk, marketisation and a failing system. Criminology and Criminal Justice. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1748-8966
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Abstract
Reporting the findings from an English study of practitioners working within multi-agency settings, this article will explore their perceptions of the factors that contribute to the criminalisation of children in care. The findings support the contention that children get into trouble as a consequence of a number of system level deficiencies, along with a defensive, risk averse approach to practice which permeates throughout children’s social care and criminal justice agencies. The impact of an under-confident and transient residential care workforce is discussed, along with the privatisation of children’s home provision. Yet while residential care was confirmed as being the more problematic environment, children in foster care were not immune to unnecessary criminalisation. Unchanged, this will continue to produce negative outcomes in terms of criminalisation, the longer term effects of which will impact the life-chances of young people for years to come.
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| Additional Information: | The Author(s) 2019 ,Professional perceptions of the care-crime connection: Risk, marketisation and a failing system, Criminology and Criminal Justice pp.1-17 Copyright © 2019 Sage Publishing DOI:10.1177/1748895819877441 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1602 Criminology, 1801 Law |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Justice Studies (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2020 15:24 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 06:13 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/1748895819877441 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14179 |
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